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41 minutes ago, 89 MJ said:

Ah shoot, I was looking at the pic on my phone and it looked like 6. 
 

Some good stories with them. My brother has a few guitars with cool stories and he has a couple of basses that I occasionally play too. For the most part I stick with my violins and mandolins. My nicest violin is actually one that my 5th great-grandfather brought here from Germany when he immigrated. It was built in 1721, IIRC. 


Sweet! What seems like about 57,000 years ago, I started with the violin when I was in 5th grade. Playing, performing, or just enjoying… music is a wonderful thing that everyone should have in their lives. 
 

Edit: guess I didn’t get into pedals. Some of them are old and used. Most have been repaired to some extent. They all found a home together recently on a leftover piece of 11 ply birch plywood and some Velcro. 
 

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42 minutes ago, neohic said:

Playing, performing, or just enjoying… music is a wonderful thing that everyone should have in their lives. 

I agree! It is a great hobby to get into, regardless of the degree that people decide to take it too.

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Desk is done minus drawer pulls. Went a little overboard with utilizing plywood scraps I’ve been saving. 

 

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Then I let the dust settle down to put a few coats of polyurethane on. 
 

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There… now I’m ready to work remotely. 

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Few changes today. I’ve decided to get rid of a two drawer tool cart I have in favor of one less thing on the floor. Hammers needed to move…

 

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… and the miter saw cart needed an additional work space. 
 

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It’s not somewhere to sit or anything real heavy, but it is somewhere to put something to sand or set tools on. I also had a go-to spot on the old tool cart for common bits, glue bottles, and lacquer thinner. 
 

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Best part is it forces me to put away tools so the new top can fold down. There’s still the same back corner a drill press will eventually go. I smoked a drill using a 4” hole saw this week so a drill press took a good jump on the priority list. 

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Started a sink project today. 
 

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I don’t have plumbing in the shop so this little sink will drain into a future bucket that lives in the cabinet. Water will be a container that lives on the counter and gravity will run the whole operation. Don’t have a water container figured yet. I’ll cruise the local Goodwill to see what could work. 

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6 hours ago, Pete M said:

5 gal bucket for both? 

 

2 hours ago, jdog said:

I use a 5 gallon container with a spout on it, I believe they use them for oils in the restaurant industry. Ill get you a picture


Yup… but I’m hoping to just find something that I don’t need to put a bunch of effort or cash into. 

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1 minute ago, neohic said:

 


Yup… but I’m hoping to just find something that I don’t need to put a bunch of effort or cash into. 

We had ours for a while, they can be found for free, and lasts a couple months before needing refilled. 

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6 hours ago, jdog said:

This is what I use, you can find them cheap

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Heck yeah! That’s exactly what I need. 
 

In other news, I opened my front door to find that the drill press fairy stopped by very discreetly. 
 

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Over the past couple months I’ve ran up to MN for one reason or another three times. One was for fun, another to volunteer to help my dad build his new shop, and the last was to help out after my father-in-law passed. My wife flew up before me and I waited a few days before driving up. I arrived and my father-in-law held on for several days… it’s a complicated story so I’ll just say that he had health problems. I had plenty of waiting to do so I spent more time on my dad’s new shop. I managed to get the main power run and we flipped the lights on shortly before I drove back home. 
 

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My dad surprised me with sending me the drill press I had my eye on. Thanks, Dad!

 

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Good bit of shop infrastructure. 

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